Complex in Different Languages
Discover 'Complex' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Complex
Afrikaans kompleks | ||
Albanian komplekse | ||
Amharic ውስብስብ | ||
Arabic مركب | ||
Armenian բարդ | ||
Assamese জটিল | ||
Aymara ch'ama | ||
Azerbaijani kompleks | ||
Bambara gɛlɛnman | ||
Basque konplexua | ||
Belarusian складаны | ||
Bengali জটিল | ||
Bhojpuri जटिल | ||
Bosnian kompleks | ||
Bulgarian комплекс | ||
Catalan complex | ||
Cebuano komplikado | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 复杂 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 複雜 | ||
Corsican cumplessu | ||
Croatian kompleks | ||
Czech komplex | ||
Danish kompleks | ||
Dhivehi އުނދަގޫ | ||
Dogri मुश्कल | ||
Dutch complex | ||
English complex | ||
Esperanto kompleksa | ||
Estonian keeruline | ||
Ewe si me nu geɖe le | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kumplikado | ||
Finnish monimutkainen | ||
French complexe | ||
Frisian kompleks | ||
Galician complexo | ||
Georgian რთული | ||
German komplex | ||
Greek συγκρότημα | ||
Guarani hypy'ũ | ||
Gujarati જટિલ | ||
Haitian Creole konplèks | ||
Hausa hadaddun | ||
Hawaiian paʻakikī | ||
Hebrew מורכב | ||
Hindi जटिल | ||
Hmong complex | ||
Hungarian összetett | ||
Icelandic flókið | ||
Igbo mgbagwoju anya | ||
Ilocano komplikado | ||
Indonesian kompleks | ||
Irish casta | ||
Italian complesso | ||
Japanese 繁雑 | ||
Javanese komplek | ||
Kannada ಸಂಕೀರ್ಣ | ||
Kazakh күрделі | ||
Khmer ស្មុគស្មាញ | ||
Kinyarwanda bigoye | ||
Konkani कठीण | ||
Korean 복잡한 | ||
Krio at | ||
Kurdish tevlihev | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ئاڵۆز | ||
Kyrgyz татаал | ||
Lao ສັບສົນ | ||
Latin complex | ||
Latvian komplekss | ||
Lingala ya mindondo | ||
Lithuanian kompleksas | ||
Luganda kikaluba | ||
Luxembourgish komplex | ||
Macedonian комплексен | ||
Maithili जटिल | ||
Malagasy pitsiny | ||
Malay kompleks | ||
Malayalam സങ്കീർണ്ണമായത് | ||
Maltese kumpless | ||
Maori matatini | ||
Marathi जटिल | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯨꯕ | ||
Mizo chipchiar | ||
Mongolian цогцолбор | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရှုပ်ထွေးသော | ||
Nepali जटिल | ||
Norwegian komplisert | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zovuta | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଜଟିଳ | ||
Oromo walxaxaa | ||
Pashto پیچلي | ||
Persian پیچیده | ||
Polish złożony | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) complexo | ||
Punjabi ਗੁੰਝਲਦਾਰ | ||
Quechua sasa | ||
Romanian complex | ||
Russian сложный | ||
Samoan faigata | ||
Sanskrit जटिल | ||
Scots Gaelic iom-fhillte | ||
Sepedi raranego | ||
Serbian комплекс | ||
Sesotho rarahane | ||
Shona zvakaoma | ||
Sindhi پيچيده | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සංකීර්ණ | ||
Slovak zložité | ||
Slovenian zapleteno | ||
Somali adag | ||
Spanish complejo | ||
Sundanese kompléks | ||
Swahili tata | ||
Swedish komplex | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kumplikado | ||
Tajik мураккаб | ||
Tamil சிக்கலான | ||
Tatar катлаулы | ||
Telugu క్లిష్టమైన | ||
Thai ซับซ้อน | ||
Tigrinya ሕውስዋስ | ||
Tsonga bohana | ||
Turkish karmaşık | ||
Turkmen çylşyrymly | ||
Twi (Akan) kuntann | ||
Ukrainian складний | ||
Urdu پیچیدہ | ||
Uyghur مۇرەككەپ | ||
Uzbek murakkab | ||
Vietnamese phức tạp | ||
Welsh cymhleth | ||
Xhosa entsonkothileyo | ||
Yiddish קאָמפּלעקס | ||
Yoruba eka | ||
Zulu okuyinkimbinkimbi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "kompleks" can also refer to a residential building or apartment complex. |
| Albanian | Komplekse derives from Latin complexus, meaning "embraced" or "intertwined". |
| Amharic | The word 'ውስብስብ' can also refer to 'intricate', 'complicated', 'elaborate', 'intriguing' and 'mysterious' in Amharic. |
| Arabic | 'مركب' in Arabic can mean 'complex' but also 'riding a mount' (such as a horse or camel), or 'to be compounded' (of ingredients or substances). |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "բարդ" (pronounced "pard") finds its etymological roots in the Persian word "بـَرد" (pronounced "pard"), meaning "cold" or "chilly". |
| Azerbaijani | "Kompleks" also means "apartment building" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The word "konplexua" can also refer to a "set of ideas or feelings that are difficult to understand". |
| Belarusian | The word "складаны" can also refer to a complex of buildings or structures, or a group of people with a common goal or purpose. |
| Bengali | জটিল শব্দটির ব্যুৎপত্তিগত অর্থ 'আবদ্ধ করা' এবং ইহা 'পেঁচানো' অর্থেও ব্যবহৃত হয়। |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, kompleks can also mean a residential building with multiple units |
| Bulgarian | The word "комплекс" in Bulgarian means "complex of buildings" or "building with multiple uses". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "complex" refers to a military or monastic establishment. |
| Cebuano | The term "komplikado" is derived from the Spanish word "complicado," meaning "complicated." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The Chinese word "复杂" can also mean "complicated" or "intricate". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 「複」字從「畐」從「冓」，「畐」為「覆」之省，「冓」為「會」之省，本義為覆會、包裹，引申指包含、繁雜、多層次。 |
| Corsican | In the early 19th century it referred to an object made of several parts. |
| Croatian | In Croatian, the word "kompleks" can also mean "residential complex" or "inferiority complex". |
| Czech | In Czech, "komplex" can also mean "apartment complex" or " inferiority complex." |
| Danish | The Danish word "kompleks" derives from the Latin "complexus", meaning "embraced" or "intertwined". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "complex" also refers to a type of apartment building, consisting of multiple residential units. |
| Esperanto | "Kompleksa" in Esperanto has two meanings: the common meaning of "complex," but also "complicated." |
| Estonian | The word "keeruline" is derived from "keer"> "curl", and shares roots with "keerukas"> "sophisticated". |
| Finnish | The word "monimutkainen" is derived from "moni" (multiple) and "mutka" (curve) in Finnish. |
| French | In French, « complexe » can also mean a large, multi-building set of apartments or offices known as a « housing complex ». |
| Frisian | The word “kompleks” is derived from the Latin word “complexus”, meaning “embraced” or “entangled”. |
| Galician | 'Complexo' in Galician also means 'set' or 'group', from Latin 'complexus', 'embrace'. |
| Georgian | In Georgian, the word რთული can also mean "difficult" or "problematic" |
| German | In German, "Komplex" has the added meaning of "apartment building". |
| Greek | The word "συγκρότημα" in Greek can also refer to a group of people or things, such as a musical band or a group of buildings. |
| Gujarati | The word "જટિલ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "जटिल," and originally meant "knotted" or "entangled" and could be used to mean "complicated" or even "matted hair" |
| Haitian Creole | The word "konplèks" can also mean "complicated" or "difficult to understand" in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | Hausa word “hadaddun”, from the verb “haɗa” "to unite, bring together, synthesize”, also means “difficult, complicated”. |
| Hawaiian | The term “paʻakikī” also signifies “intricate, abstruse, obscure, enigmatic, mysterious, perplexing, and sophisticated in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מורכב" also means "compound" in chemistry and "complex" in legal terms. |
| Hindi | In Hindi, "जटिल" can also mean "braided hair" or "a knotty problem". |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "complex" (tooj) also means "hard to understand" or "complicated." |
| Hungarian | "Összetett" (complex) in Hungarian can also refer to "composite", "compound" or "consisting of many parts". |
| Icelandic | "Flókið" is derived from the Old Norse word "floki", meaning "entanglement" or "knot". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "mgbagwoju anya" literally means "to wrap one's eyes," implying the act of looking at something with great intensity or scrutiny. |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, "kompleks" is derived from Dutch and also means residential housing or dormitory area. |
| Irish | In Irish, "casta" also means "to twist" or "to bend". |
| Italian | Compresso also means 'set' or 'band' of musicians in Italian. |
| Japanese | "繁" means "to become complicated," and "雑" means "miscellaneous," so "繁雑" means "to become complicated with many things." |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "komplek" can also refer to a residential area or neighborhood. |
| Kannada | The word "ಸಂಕೀರ್ಣ" is also used in Kannada to refer to a musical composition with a complex rhythmic structure. |
| Kazakh | Күрделі (complex) also means 'difficult to understand', 'intricate', 'unclear' or 'obscure' in Kazakh. |
| Korean | 복잡한 originally meant 'to be intricate' but now commonly means 'complicated'. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "tevlihev" is derived from the Arabic word "talwih", which means "to confuse or complicate". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "татаал" also means "unclear," "complicated," or "difficult." |
| Latin | In Latin, "complex" (complexus) means "embraced" or "intertwined." |
| Latvian | The word "komplekss" can also mean "set" or "group" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The word "kompleksas" comes from the Latin word "complexus", meaning "embraced" or "intertwined". |
| Luxembourgish | “Komplex”, en luxembourgeois, peut aussi faire référence à un bâtiment ou un groupe de bâtiments. |
| Macedonian | "Комплексен" can also mean 'composite' or 'full'. |
| Malagasy | The word "PITSINY" in Malagasy can also refer to a type of small crab found in the coastal regions of the island. |
| Malay | The Malay word "kompleks" also means "housing complex". |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, 'സങ്കീർണ്ണമായത്' derives from the Sanskrit 'samkirna' meaning 'mixed or composite' and can also refer to something 'detailed' or 'intricate'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "kumpless" can also mean "complicated" or "difficult". |
| Maori | The word "matatini" can also refer to a type of performance art involving synchronized movements and poi.} |
| Marathi | It is cognate to the Sanskrit word "जटिल" meaning 'matted hair,' 'entangled,' or 'complicated'. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "цогцолбор" is derived from the verb "цогцолх," which means "to gather" or "to assemble." |
| Nepali | ‘जटिल’ का शाब्दिक अर्थ है ‘जो उलझा हुआ’ या ‘गुंथा हुआ’ है। |
| Norwegian | The word "komplisert" is derived from the Latin word "complexus", meaning "entangled" or "folded together". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nsenga, "zovuta" means "large, great, or fat". |
| Pashto | پيچلى means "complicated" but also means "twisted" when used to describe something that is twisted, such as the stem of a plant. |
| Persian | The word "پیچیده" (complex) is derived from the Persian word "پیچ" (coil) and has the alternate meaning of "twisted" or "involved". |
| Polish | The Polish word "złożony" also means "complicated". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portugal, 'complexo' can also mean 'group of buildings' or 'residential area', while in Brazil it can also refer to a 'shanty town'. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "complex" also means "apartment building". |
| Russian | The Russian word "сложный" can mean not only "complex" but also "capable of adding" or "folded, wrinkled". |
| Samoan | The word 'faigata' in Samoan is sometimes used to describe something that is intricate or detailed. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "iom-fhillte" in Scots Gaelic is a compound of "iom" (many) and "fillte" (fold), and can also mean "complicated" or "difficult to understand". |
| Serbian | In Serbian, комплекс (kompleks) derives from the Latin complexus (meaning "embrace" or "connection") and can also mean "set" or "group". |
| Sesotho | "Rarahane" can mean complicated, but it can also refer to an intricate maze or a complex riddle. |
| Shona | The word "zvakaoma" might also refer to a place where traditional African ceremonies are held. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "پيچيده" can also refer to something that is twisted, entangled, or intricate. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "සංකීර්ණ" ("complex") in Sinhala (Sinhalese) is derived from the Sanskrit word "संकीर्ण" ("saṅkīrṇa"), meaning "narrow" or "confined". |
| Slovak | "Zložité" (complex) comes from the verb "zložiť" (to fold), so it originally meant something that is folded or tangled. |
| Slovenian | In Croatian, "zapleteno" can also mean "intricate", "difficult to understand", or "devious". |
| Somali | "Adag" also means "complicated", "difficult", and "elaborate" in Somali. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "complejo" can also refer to a group of buildings, such as an apartment or office complex, or to a psychological complex. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "kompléks" can also mean a large building or housing estate. |
| Swahili | "Tata" is an onomatopoeic term referring to a complex or complicated situation. |
| Swedish | "Komplex" in Swedish can refer to a type of housing (similar to an apartment building but larger and with less luxurious amenities) or an emotional complex that requires extensive psychoanalysis. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "kumplikado" is derived from the Spanish word "complicado", meaning "complicated". |
| Tajik | The word "мураккаб" also refers to a type of Persian miniature that is composed of several individual paintings. |
| Tamil | "சிக்கலான" also means 'perplexed', 'confused', 'entangled' and 'complicated' in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The word 'క్లిష్టమైన' (complex) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'क्लिष्ट' (kliṣṭa), meaning 'difficult' or 'entangled'. |
| Thai | In Thai, "ซับซ้อน", or "sap-sap-pawn" can also mean "compounded" or "intricate". |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "karmaşık" shares its root with "karma", meaning "fate" or "destiny". |
| Ukrainian | The word "складний" also has the alternate meaning of "folding" or "collapsible" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | پیچیدہ is a Farsi word derived from |
| Uzbek | The word "murakkab" can also refer to a "compound word", a single word formed from multiple smaller words. |
| Vietnamese | The term "phức tạp" is derived from the Chinese characters "复杂", which literally means "entangled" or "interwoven". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "cymhleth" can also mean "difficult", "intricate", or "complicated". |
| Xhosa | The term derives from the Xhosa verb ontsonkotha meaning 'to entangle'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "קאָמפּלעקס" (komplex) can also refer to a "physical disability" or "birth defect". |
| Yoruba | The word "eka" in Yoruba can also refer to a "secret" or "mystery" |
| Zulu | The word "okuyinkimbinkimbi" consists of "oku" meaning "of", "-yin-" meaning "being in a state of", "kimbinkimbi" meaning "complicated, intricate or confusing", and can therefore also mean "complicated". |
| English | The word 'complex' derives from the Latin 'complexus,' meaning 'embraced' or 'intertwined,' and encompasses meanings related to intricacy, difficulty, or a set of interconnected elements. |